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Re: Mainstream pop
--- Jeff McCloud <teamccloud at yahoo_com> wrote:
> I am a new listee and enjoy lurking -- you all
> are a great literate bunch.
>
Whi thanks yoo veree mutch.
> On mainstream pop music: My beef with it has
> always been the repetitive nature of pop radio.
> I think I'd listen more if radio didn't play a
> song every two hours.
Have you ever worked in radio? I haven't but I'm
learning a lot about it as I've become involved
with a radio show and a concert series. Here's
kinda how it works on mainstream pop stations:
The "program director" is a misleading title for
a job which involves taking instructions from the
corporate monolith far far away and plugging them
in. This assures two critical goals.
1-Make sure that NO community spirit or local
musical tastes, let alone bands, seep into the
station's FORMAT.
2-Ensure that the 25 songs in HEAVY ROTATION get
played twice a day, since the monolith's partner,
the LABELS, of which there are according to them
just 5 (and that's really four too many), stay
happy and continue the secret payments.
mike
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